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Before the conquest, the Filipinos had a literature written in…
Quote byEpifanio de los Santos · 1871–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As a quote in Quirino & Hilario's "Short History of Tagalog Literature" in Thinking for Ourselves. Manila Oriental Co. 1924, p. 56-57..
English (original)
Before the conquest, the Filipinos had a literature written in characters of their own, and its manifestation in verse constituted of maxims, proverbs, boat-songs, nuptial-songs, war songs, love-songs, and the like.
— Epifanio de los Santos
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